smilegate

Publisher known in the west primarily for Skysaga and Lost Ark.

New World’s overnight update broke the PvP season servers, and yeah, it’s real bad

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(Updated with Amazon's latest response at the end.) Amazon's overnight patch for New World seems to have unintentionally broken a few rather important parts of...

Multiplayer survival sandbox IfSunSets unveils plans for NPC romance, new ocean regions, and gobs more

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Just before the holidays, MOP's Fight or Kite columnist Sam took a tour of a new buy-to-play multiplayer survivalbox called IfSunSets, Smilegate's latest entry...

Lost Ark’s new raid, raid accessibility system, and third anniversary events launch tomorrowday

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Lost Ark's Frosty Fate is not, in fact, a story about how the soft-serve chocolate malt you got from Wendy's is now in your...

Lost Ark teases its January 22 patch and its casual-friendly Frontier system

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New year, new Eye on Arkesia coming out of Amazon and Smilegate's Lost Ark, as Community Manager Roxx is back with a brief look...
This is probably fine.

End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2025

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I am the sort of person who derives no small amount of ongoing satisfaction from the idea that I have had an influence upon...
In a box.

The MOP Up: Star Trek Online surprises fans with Spacedock revamp

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Star Trek Online delivered a small surprise this past week with visual improvements to its iconic Spacedock: "In essence, we’re replacing the exterior System...

Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2024?

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It's pretty much a given that every year when we announce our MMO of the year, someone's going to hop into the comments and...
So steamy.

Steam saw more games released in 2024 than any other year prior

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We are once again being reminded that Valve's Steam platform is the biggest player in town when it comes to digital storefronts: Fresh data...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025

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This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...

Lost Ark’s Winter Soloist update is live with a solo mode expansion and the new ‘destined protection’ system

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Lost Ark's big winter update, Winter Soloist, is officially here today, and that's not a reference to music: It's the introduction to an infusion...

Lost Ark details new raids and dynamic raid difficulty and the Wild Soul class in latest roadmap

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Lost Ark promised a roadmap update by year's end, and sure enough, it delivered: The latest content roadmap from Amazon Games shares some early...
Sure, this seems boring.

Lost Ark promises an upcoming roadmap and its final update for the year

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The good news is that Lost Ark is not only going to release a roadmap for the next few months of game updates, but...

Fight or Kite: IfSunSets tasks players with surviving the night on a zombie-filled island

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We are rapidly approaching the end of the year, and my game time is getting especially sporadic. This time of year things is a...

Throne and Liberty’s Call of the Spear is live with the new spear weapon and dimensional trials

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As promised, Throne and Liberty is patching up morning with the Call of the Spear update. If you've been following New World or Lost...

Lost Ark’s Holiday Awakening update lands tomorrow morning with the new Buzzling Island

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Hope you're ready for Lost Ark's November update because it's dropping early tomorrow morning just ahead of the holiday. It's even called Holiday Awakening....

Next week’s Lost Ark update adds Buzzling Island and an item level helper system

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There's only one more week left in the month of November, but that week looks to be bringing a bunch of things to Lost...

Perfect Ten: Utterly silly MMO transmedia synergy over the years

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Remember back when Trion Worlds tried to coin -- or cement -- the term "transmedia synergy" for the relationship between Defiance the game and Defiance the...

Massively Overthinking: What are the great ‘popcorn games’ in the MMORPG genre?

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MOP reader Elenie recently put the concept of "popcorn MMOs" back on my radar thanks to a comment about Neverwinter being an MMO many...

Lost Ark’s Ignite chest exploiter fix didn’t quite go to plan, so it’s extending some of the bans

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The temporary banwave in Amazon's Lost Ark has become more of a lingering ban tsunami as the studio is actually extending bans for players...

Smilegate’s new survivalbox IfSunSets hits early access on Steam tomorrow

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Smilegate is continuing to stick its fingers into many pies - that's not meant to sound naughty, we swear - with the full reveal...

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